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Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested

Colombo, August 22 : Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested today by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after arriving to record a statement over allegations of misusing state funds. The probe concerns his September 2023 visit to London to attend a University of Wolverhampton graduation ceremony for his wife, Professor

Global South must claim the climate mantle at COP30

Trump’s resurgence has brought that era to an end. His administration has mocked climate science, propped up the fossil-fuel industry,

Keeping the Transatlantic Relationship Alive

For starters, all the joint (transatlantic) work done since NATO’s Wales Summit in 2014 has already established a solid foundation.

An Agenda for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises

Governments, international financial institutions, and civil-society organizations, recognizing the need to tackle today’s debt and development crises, are ready for

Trump’s Alaska Folly

Putin has no reason to prefer Trump’s vision of a beautiful future to his own: a Ukraine with a puppet

The Age of AI Soft Power

AI leaders like OpenAI and DeepMind see themselves as being in a race to build artificial general intelligence (AGI): a

Climate Resilience Is a Strategic Investment

Perhaps more importantly, these shocks are exacerbating unsustainable debt burdens at a time when donor countries are slashing development aid,

Right-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to Germany

Worse, it was the SPD’s own coalition partner, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), that suddenly shifted from supporting Frauke

The Duty to Protect the Climate

In a David-versus-Goliath moment, the tiny Pacific Island state of Vanuatu recently changed international law forever by bringing the world’s most

Can Democracy Survive AI?

That means the coming AI revolution may render closed political systems more stable than open ones. In an age of